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Leyton 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
- Published
- 1955
- Pages
- 166
- Tables
- 114
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Causes of Death as given by the Registrar-General, 1954.
Causes of Death Males Females Total -
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TABLE 2. Comparative Statistics of Births, Mortality, Etc. LEYTON, 1901-1954.
Year Population Births Birth Rate Deaths Death Rate Deaths under 1 year Infantile Death Rate -
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Sanitary Arrangements in Leyton Households. The Census of 1951 revealed the following information in respect of Leyton households :—
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TABLE I
Age Group Marital State Single Married Widowed Divorced -
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TABLE II.
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TABLE III.
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(5) That consideration be given by the appropriate authority to the need for:—
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It will be noted that, although the chemical is sprayed on the outside of the oranges, quite a large proportion penetrates the peel and contaminates the juice within, and in certain oranges examined (e.g., samples numbered 385, 386, 468 and 473) the concentration of chemical found in the juice was substantially greater than that found in the peel.
Sample No. Date of Purchase Country of Origin Concentration of Thiourea (parts per million) -
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Date Place where caught Specimen Number Specimen (Blood) Specimen (Kidney) -
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Table showing the number of notified cases of infectious diseases and their disposal.
Disease Notifications Received Removed to Hospital -
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On consulting the records I find that the number of notifications during the year 1954 is the lowest number since records became available, except for a period during the war years when a large proportion of the population was evacuated to the reception areas.
Year Notifications received -
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The following list shows the annual number of cases of acute poliomyelitis notified in the Borough from 1947-1954, inclusive.
Year Year -
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The number was made up as follows :—
Males Females Total -
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The following is a statement of particulars appearing in the Register of Notification of Cases of Tuberculosis for the year ended 31st December, 1954:—
Pulmonary N on-Pulmonary TOTAL M. F. Total M. F. Total -
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New Cases .—The following table gives particulars regarding the new cases which have occurred during the year :—
Age Periods New Cases Pulmonary Non-Pulmonary M. F. M. F. -
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The following table shows the annual number of new cases and deaths over a period of 10 years.
Year Pulmonary Non-Pulmonary Total Notifications Deaths Notifications Deaths Notifications Deaths -
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The following table gives the relevant information regarding sessions held during 1954.
Date 1954 Number of Donors Bled Not Bled -
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The following table contains details of the number of houses demolished or closed as a result of representations made under the provisions of Sections 11 and 12 of the Housing Act, 1936.
, Number of Houses Persons Displaced -
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The undermentioned return giving details of action taken as a result of applications received under Section 26 (i) of Part II of the above Act was submitted to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government in compliance with Circular No. 53/54.
, Number of Applications for Certificates of Disrepair Number Granted Number Refused Number of Applications for Revocation of Certificates of Disrepair Number Granted Number Refused -
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The results of such action are given hereunder.
Date of Hearing Address Result of Court Proceedings -
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Period 28th September, 1953 to 13th March, 1954
Type of Work Done Hours -
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Summary showing financial saving for period 28th September, 1953 to 13th March, 1954—six four-weekly periods
Type of Work Total hours Comparative Costs Financial Saving Old Rate at 9s. 6d. per hour New Rate at 3s. 3½d. per hour £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. -
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PREMISES TREATED :
Rats Mice Total -
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NOTICES
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SECTION 2.—INSPECTION OF BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS. Approximate numbers of business premises in the Borough and functions involved. Food and business premises which are licensed or registered for a specific purpose.
Type of Premises ADDITIONAL LICENCES, REGISTRATIONS AND OTHER FUNCTIONS INVOLVED Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Ice Cream Milk Preserved Food Shell Fish Power Factory Non-Power Factory Catering Off-Licence Bakehouse Confectionery Fish Frier Grocer Barber With Storage Poultry Slaughterhouse 1 Hairdressing -
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These figures are inclusive of those shown in Columns R, 5 and 6, and constitute the total number of Power and Non-Power Factories maintained on the Factory Registers under statutory legislation.
Description Total -
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The approximate number of miscellaneous shops and other business establishments is 754. (This includes boot and shoe retail shops, builders' merchants, drapers, florists, furniture dealers, gents' and ladies' outfitters, hardware shops, newsagents, radio and television dealers, etc.)
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The following inspections were carried out in relation to the undermentioned food premises, having regard to the requirements of the Public Health Act 1936, Food and Drugs Act 1938 and associated Orders and Regulations, Clean Food Bye-laws 1950, Ice-Cream (Heat Treatment Reg.) 1947/52, Shops Act 1950, Factories Act 1937, Leyton Corporation Act 1950, Essex County Council Act 1952, and relevant legislation.
Type of Premises Number of Inspections -
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For each of the ingredients sampled the limits of lead contamination recommended by the Metallic Sub-Committee are given in column 2 (b).
Sample No. Description of Sample Lead contamination in parts per million Remarks (a) Actual (b) Recomm. limit -
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Samples taken for Chemical Analysis.
Commodity No. of Samples Analysed No. of Samples unsatisfactory -
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Commodity No. of Samples Analysed No. of Samples unsatisfactory -
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Commodity No. of Samples Analysed No. of Samples unsatisfactory -
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The results of such examination are summarised as follows:—
Designation No. of Samples Taken Result Phosphatase Reaction Methylene Blue Test Satisfactory Unsatisfactory Satisfactory Unsatisfactory -
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Forty samples of ice cream and 13 of ice lollies were taken and submitted to the County's Public Health Laboratories for bacteriological examination. The results of such examination are summarised as follows:—
Commodity No. of Samples Taken Result Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Satisfactory -
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The food condemned was destroyed by fire at the Council's Destructor Works.
Commodity Cwts. Qrs. Lbs. Commodity Units -
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The following table contains a summary of the nature of work executed and improvements effected as a result of the afore-mentioned action. Nature of Defects and Contraventions
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The following is a summary of these licences.
Special Designation Tuberculin Tested Pasteurised Sterilised -
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Details of the number of persons and premises registered under this Section are given hereunder.
Persons Premises -
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The following inspections were carried out in relation to the undermentioned business premises having regard to the requirements of the Public Health Act, 1936 ; the Shops Act, 1950 ; the Factories Act, 1937; the Pet Animals Act, 1951 ; the Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Act, 1951 ; the Diseases of Animals Acts and Orders; the Leyton Corporation Act, 1950 ; and relevant legislation.
Type of Premises Number of Inspections -
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The following is an extract from a statutory return, made annually to the Ministry of Health, showing inspections made and an analysis of notices served under the provisions of the Factories Act, 1937.
Premises Number on Register Number of Inspections Written Notices Occupiers Prosecuted (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) -
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The following table gives details of registration and licences issued:—
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Set out below in tabular form are the findings of the Prescribed Analyst.
Appropriate Tests Standard prescribed by R.F. and O.F.M. Regs., 1951 Results of Analysis Remarks and Action Taken -
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Appropriate Tests Standard prescibed by R.F. and O.F.M. Regs., 1951 Results of Analysis Remarks and Action Taken -
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CONCENTRATION OF SMOKE EXPRESSED IN MILLIGRAMS PER 100 CUBIC METRES
Month Monthly average Highest daily average Lowest daily average 1953 1954 1953 1954 1953 1954 -
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CONCENTRATION OF SULPHUR DIOXIDE EXPRESSED AS PARTS PER 100 MILLION
Month Monthly average Highest daily average Lowest daily average 1953 1954 1953 1954 1953 1954 -
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Births. 1,232 births were registered during the year:—
Males Females Total -
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HEALTH CLINICS—CLINIC SESSIONS
Health Clinic Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday -
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The arrangements for the distribution of welfare foods are :—
Distribution Centre. Days of Opening and Times. -
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Post-Natal Clinic.
Leyton Green Clinic Lady Rayleigh Training Home Total -
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ATTENDANCES, EXAMINATIONS, Etc., 1952-1954.
Leyton Green Park House Dawlish Road All Centres -
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Care of Premature Infants—( contd.)
Transferred to Hospital Died in First 24 hours Died on 2nd to 7th day Died on 8th to 28th day Survived 28 days Total -
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Patients inspected and treated during the year.
Expectant Mothers Nursing Mothers Children under School Age -
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Types of treatment given.
Expectant Mothers Nursing Mothers Children under school age -
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Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
No. of Cases Notified Treated , Vision Unimpaired Vision Impaired Total Blindness Deaths At Home In Hosp. -
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Infant, Neo -natal and Foetal Mortality.
Year Live Births Deaths under Mortality Rate Stillbirths No. Rate per 1,000 (live and still) Births 1 year 4 weeks Infantile Neo Natal -
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Day Nurseries. There are two Day Nurseries in the area, each having accommodation for 60 children.
Knotts Green Ellingham Road Total 0-2 yrs. 2-5 yrs. 0-2 yrs. 2-5 yrs. 0-2 yrs. 2-5 yrs. -
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Cases attended by Council Midwives.
Midwives Total Essex County Council Attached to the Lady Rayleigh Training Home Beachcroft Road -
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Vaccination against Smallpox.
Age at date of Vaccination Under 6 months 6-12 months 1 year 2-4 years 5-14 years 15 years and over Total -
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Continuous publicity is therefore essential to prevent parents of young children being lulled into a false sense of complacency by the dramatic fall in the incidence of diphtheria and the rarity of its occurrence among the children of friends and neighbours.
Age (in years) at final injection Children* who completed a full course of primary immunisation during the year Children * who were given a reinforcing injection during the year By General Practitioners By County Staff By General Practitioners By County Staff -
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PERCENTAGE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN IMMUNISED.
Entrants Second Age Group Third Age Group No. Exmd. No. Immunised % No. Exmd. No. Immunised % No. Exmd. No. Immunised % -
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Protection against Whooping Cough, Arrangements for public whooping cough immunisation in the area were put into operation on 10th September, 1951 , and the following table gives the available information regarding the number and age groups of the children who were immunised during 1954.
Age at time of final injection Children who completed a full course under the County Scheme Records of combined diphtheria-pertussis immunisations received By General Practitioners By County Staff -
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Vaccination with B.C.G. for contacts with tuberculosis has continued to be provided at Dawlish Road Clinic during most of 1954, and below are set out details of the work done.
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AMBULANCE SERVICES I am indebted to the County Medical Officer for the following statistics relating to the work carried out, during the past five years, from the Ambulance Station, Auckland Road, Leyton, E.io. (Tel. : LEY 6077.)
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Foot Clinic. In my Annual Report for 1953 I submitted a brief historical outline of the treatment facilities available since the Foot Clinic at High Road Baths —one of the first municipal foot clinics in the country—was established in 1936, and some idea of the progressive increase in annual attendances may be gained from these figures:—
Year Attendances Year Attendances -
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Under the circumstances it is of interest to see the age groups of those attending for treatment, and the following list shows the ages of 2,000 adult patients who attended at the Foot Clinic.
Age Men Women Total -
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Summary of Attendances and Treatment. During the year there were 22,695 attendances for treatment, an increase of 1 ,167 over the attendances during the previous year.
First Attendances (New Cases) Subsequent Attendances Total Attendances -
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(b) Length of convalescence of cases sent during year:—
Length of stay No. of Cases -
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(c) Where cases have been sent:—
Name of Convalescent Home No. of Cases sent -
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Health Education. Shop Window Displays, 280 High Road, Leyton, E. 10.
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Submitted hereunder in statistical form is the result of the survey undertaken by Mass Radiography Unit 6.B in the Borough in May, 1954.
Males Females Total -
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Active Tuberculosis. Rates per 1,000.
Mass Radiography Survey Males Females Combined -
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(c) Rehabilitation. (1) New cases—
Preston Hall Papworth Hall -
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During the year 266 articles of sick room equipment were loaned on the recommendation of doctors, hospital almoners, etc.
From Central Store From Lady Rayleigh Home -
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Eight years have now elapsed since Leyton Council, the then Maternity and Child Welfare Authority, extended their scheme for domestic help by including the provision of domestic help in necessitous cases other than mothers and infants; and some idea of the work may be gathered from these figures:—
Year Number of Cases Maternity Other Total -
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(c) Help Provided:—
Maternity Acute Sick Tuberculosis Chronic Sick Aged Not Sick Others Total Aged Others -
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(2) Employees of other local authorities, etc.
Name of local authority, etc. No. of medical examinations -
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Table I
Period Death rate per million at ages under 15 years Rheumatic fever Heart disease -
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Table II
Year Number of L.E.A. providing treatment in school clinics Number of clinics providing for Minor ailments Dental defects Visual defects Orthopaedic defects -
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The figures set out below relate to the calendar year ended December, 1954
Number Roll Average Attendance Percentage of Attendance -
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A.— Routine Medical Inspection.
Number of Inspections in the prescribed groups. Percentage of parents present -
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Number of Individual Children found at Routine Medical Inspection to require Treatment (excluding Defects of Nutrition, Uncleanliness and Dental Diseases).
Group (1) Number of Children Percentage of Children found to require treatment (4) Inspected (2) Found to require treatment (3) -
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Cleanliness Surveys in Individual Schools
School Number of Examinations Number Cautioned Number Excluded -
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The following table shows in statistical form the results of school dental inspection in the individual schools mentioned.
School No. of Children inspected No. requiring treatment No. approved for treatment No. accepting treatment No. refusing treatment Percentage of acceptances -
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Items of work under this heading for which no provision is made in Table IV (page 164) are—
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HANDICAPPED PUPILS
Delicate Pupils. Boys Girls Total -
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There were none awaiting admission to either Day or Resident Schools.
Boys Girls Total -
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Educationally Sub-normal.
Boys Girls Total -
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REPORT ON HARROW GREEN EDUCATIONALLY SUB-NORMAL SCHOOL
Leyton Forest Total -
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Reasons for Leaving.
Leyton Forest -
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Total number of children given remedial teaching during the year :— Boys, 92 ; Girls, 17. Total 109.
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No. of Children with their Gains in Reading Ages (in months)
Number of Children Number of Months Remedial Teaching Gains in Reading Age (in months) 0-6 7-12 13-18 19-24 25-30 31-36 37-42 43-48 48 + -
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PROVISION OF MEALS (a) Average daily number of children fed under the Education Authority's arrangements during 1954 was :—
Dinners. Milk Meals -
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SPEECH THERAPY
Boys Girls Total -
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Number of children interviewed individually by the Psychologist.
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The reasons for referral to the Psychologist were :—
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Some children, of course, show more than one symptom of disturbance. An analysis of the figures shows :—
Forest Pre-School Infants Juniors Secondary -
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CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC TABLE I. Analysis of Figures for 1954.
Leyton -
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TABLE II. Primary Reasons for Referral.
Leyton -
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TABLE III. Analysis of Cases Diagnosed.
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TABLE IV. Analysis of Cases Closed during the Year. (Including cases referred in previous years)
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The following list shows in statistical outline the numbers of children dealt with and the results obtained. Number of pupils who
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STATISTICAL APPENDIX TABLE I. Medical Inspection of Pupils attending Maintained Primary and Secondary Schools.
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C. Pupils Found to Require Treatment. Number of individual pupils found at Periodic Medical Inspection to require treatment (excluding dental diseases and infestation with vermin).
Group For Defective Vision (excluding Squint) For all other Conditions Total individual Pupils Percentage of children found to require Treatment -
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TABLE II. A. Return of Defects Found by Medical Inspection in the Year Ended 31st December, 1954.
Defect or Disease Routine Inspections Special Inspections Number requiring Treatment Observation Number requiring Treatment Observation (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) -
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TABLE II— contd. B. Classification of the General Condition of Pupils Inspected during the Year in the Age Groups.
Age Groups No. of Pupils Inspected A Good B Fair C Poor No. % No. % No. % -
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TABLE III. Return of Defects Treated during the Year ended 31st December, 1954. TREATMENT TABLE. Group I.—Minor Ailments (excluding Uncleanliness, for which see Table V).
Disease or Defect Number of Defects treated or under treatment during the year By the Authority Otherwise -
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TABLE III —contd. Group II.—Defective Vision and Squint (excluding Minor Eye Defects treated as Minor Ailments.—Group I).
Defect or Disease Number of Defects dealt with By the Authority Otherwise -
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Group III.—Treatment of Defects of Nose and Throat.
Total number treated By the Authority Otherwise -
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Group IV.— O rthopaedic and Postural Defects.
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Group V.—Child Guidance Treatment and Speech Therapy. Number of pupils treated—
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TABLE IV. Dental Inspection and Treatment.
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TABLE V. Infestation with Vermin.